Paediatric Diabetes Dietitian

Job summary

This post is to deliver the dietetic inpatient and outpatients service at Kettering General Hospital and sometimes at Northampton General Hospital to children with diabetes. As well as a sound knowledge of diabetes and new technological treatments available you will need to have behaviour change skills and be able to motivate patients to make dietary change. You will be a key member of the paediatric diabetes MDT and will work closely with children and their families both in 1:1 consultations and delivering group education sessions face to face and virtually.

Main duties of the job

The role involves:

o Providing dietetic assessment, advice, treatment and counselling to support behavioural change in children and young people who have a diagnosis of type 1 or 2 diabetes. This will be delivered through one-to-one consultations, group sessions, MDT clinics, home visits and school training. More of the work is now done virtually

o Autonomously managing a highly complex caseload and work with children and their carers to agree patient centred care

o Working collaboratively with the wider multi- disciplinary health care team to ensure delivery of coordinated care and to provide specialist advice and attend case conferences, network meetings as appropriate.

Educating patients on carbohydrate counting portions, advising on use of insulin pumps, new approaches to insulin adjustment and continuous glucose monitoring

o Evaluating patients’ progress and contribute to and implement service improvement work

o Using a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to implement treatment plans.

o Providing advice and training to patients, carers, colleagues and other healthcare professionals to promote an understanding of the aims of dietetic treatment to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.

o Managing clinical risk within own caseload and an understanding of safeguarding.